Introduction: Courtly Conflict and the Passions

Part One: Friendship and Pleasure

1. Classical Rhetoric and Vernacular Theories of Social Integration
2. Alfonso de Madrigal, el Tostado, on the Politics of Friendship
3. Reason and Its Discontents

Part Two: Compassion and Consolation

4. Impassibility, Pity, Community
5. Passionate Quotation
6. The Impasse of the Courtly Reward
7. Confession, Consolation, and the Poetics of Hylomorphism

Conclusion: Tragic Enclosure

Bibliography

About the Author

Henry Berlin is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo SUNY.

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